Hmm.. I liked the pre-academy vibe, since it felt sort of grim-dark and the characters all seemed super well written. Then once we got into academy it became your typical shounen school manga and felt very generic. Post Eugene training arc shit went so off the rails that everything before that felt pointless, and then it was all one long fight scene until the end. None of the guys from the academy felt relevant anymore at this point. They tried to include some small parts that tied the kingdoms fighting there, but again, any worldbuilding regarding that felt pointless since we had long since lost connection to any of that throughout the series..
All in all I'm very disappointed with how this went honestly, I wish we could have stuck more along the lines of what we had pre-academy in this story. It felt like author didn't plan things out on a beginning-middle-end scale, and was mostly just making shit up as they went with a very vague sense of direction
The art was by far the main highlights of this, and I got some absolutely gorgeous screenshots of Eugene to keep. But uh, yeah, I'm sort of glad it ended at this point